I myself tried the whole promise thing! The driver is so large that you have to strip all kinds of stuff out of the boot.img. I kept getting stopped when the cdrom was not found due to having a cdrom that needed the adaptec driver loaded!
Gave up and did the expert install and gave the system the driver disk. Promise has made a driver for uniproc machines for 7.2! I have called and they are working on the smp version now. -matt > -----Original Message----- > From: sixx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 7:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RH 7.2 custom kernel/modules in boot.img > > > On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 09:47, Garrett Mead wrote: > > Good day, > > I am interested in installing RH 7.2 on a new system > which has a > > promise SX6000 IDE RAID controller. Promise only > distributes a driver > > for RH 7.0/7.1. I have read that I2O support is included in most > > modern 2.4.x kernels. As such I am interested in building a kernel > > with static support for I2O or module support for the same. > > > > Does the RH installation detects the raid card? > Its quite a hassle to build a custom boot.img > This might help http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html > http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/KickStart-HOWTO-9.html > > I think the best to help you out is this link, if RH doesn't > support your card straight out of the disc. > http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue73/mwaikambo.h> tml > > > I have > seen some documentation on adding a new > vmlinux file to the > > boot.img along with custom modules, however the process is > still not > > clear to me. > > > > Is there a HOW-TO somewhere outlining how to take a newly > built kernel > > and place it and its supported modules on the boot.img file > to be used > > for a fresh RH 7.2 installation? > > > > One of my main questions has to do with what kernel settings are > > required for the installation process? Is the kernel > .config that was > > used by RH to build the default vmlinux file on the > boot.img available > > for reference somewhere? > > > > Thank you for your time. > > > > -- Garrett > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/re> dhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
